Heading Home
Shaughn and I are in Charlotte Airport, waiting for our connecting flight home. We'll be touching down in Providence at 5:30 today, and then finally home. I've missed home. It's been a long & emotional week, but I must say, I feel much more connected to Shaughn's family now. I just wish that Guy's death hadn't been the catalyst. Don't get me wrong, it would have come in time, but tragedy (and yes, I think this counts as a tragedy in the literary sense, too) really has a way of bringing people together. I did my best to be right there in the thick of things, which I'm pretty sure they appreciated, be it arranging the funeral flowers, setting up luncheon, proofing the obit, scrubbing the house, minding the heathens or helping Shaughn's oldest nephew finish his Teton Sioux diorama for school this morning. I just wanted to be involved--I'd only known him for two years, but Guy meant a lot to me. I only got a chance to call him 'Dad' once, and that hurts.
In other news, our flight is delayed. So who knows when we'll touch down now.
We spent a lot of time going through Guy's art and poetry on the home computer. Most of it's now on Pemby, and Joelle made a beautiful album of some of it to share at the viewing.
We'll be back in Tally come Christmas time. Shaughn, Dad, Josh, and I will be driving down (God/Allah/Buddah help us all) and we'll be flying my mom down later on. The factory she works at gave her only Monday off for Christmas, so we're going to try to fly her down Friday evening and back on Monday night so she still gets to meet the family, and be on time to work.
I'm so proud of my mom. She's kicked out her last loser, been working a steady job for a few months now, and is even losing weight. Way to go, mom!
Speaking of work, I gave my two-week notice Sunday night after we got the call, and sent in my resignation letter on Wednesday afternoon. I'm working tomorrow, and Wednesday, I have Thursday off for Thanksgiving, and I had taken a vacation day on Friday. So, after Wednesday, I'll be blissfully unemployed--just in time to start all the grad school applications.
I missed my GRE test on Saturday. Hope they'll let me reschedule. And I have to run down to Uconn soon, to make sure everyone still has those glowing letters of reccommendation laying around for me.
In other news, our flight is delayed. So who knows when we'll touch down now.
We spent a lot of time going through Guy's art and poetry on the home computer. Most of it's now on Pemby, and Joelle made a beautiful album of some of it to share at the viewing.
We'll be back in Tally come Christmas time. Shaughn, Dad, Josh, and I will be driving down (God/Allah/Buddah help us all) and we'll be flying my mom down later on. The factory she works at gave her only Monday off for Christmas, so we're going to try to fly her down Friday evening and back on Monday night so she still gets to meet the family, and be on time to work.
I'm so proud of my mom. She's kicked out her last loser, been working a steady job for a few months now, and is even losing weight. Way to go, mom!
Speaking of work, I gave my two-week notice Sunday night after we got the call, and sent in my resignation letter on Wednesday afternoon. I'm working tomorrow, and Wednesday, I have Thursday off for Thanksgiving, and I had taken a vacation day on Friday. So, after Wednesday, I'll be blissfully unemployed--just in time to start all the grad school applications.
I missed my GRE test on Saturday. Hope they'll let me reschedule. And I have to run down to Uconn soon, to make sure everyone still has those glowing letters of reccommendation laying around for me.